Cereal - S/D

Regular Life
Kix
Cheerios
Granola (I can't remember the brand name, though)
Cream of Wheat (NO LUMPS!)

Destroy:

Any of that stuff that makes your teeth ache from the sugar content.

Also, Corn and Multi-Bran Chex, Frosted Mini-Wheats, classic Cheerios.

Destroy: Most sugary crap that I can't stomach because I was denied them as a child.

Or: Sugar w/ Grape Nuts

Search: the most gimmicky mindnumbingly weird cereals possible, the stuff that only makes it to shelves because kids' cereals are like Dada. Peanut butter crunchy bits with jelly-flavored marshmallows? Sounds horrible. Gimme some. Glow-in-the-dark crunchy bits with color-changing marshmallows and pop rocks? It'll probably give me nightmares. Bowl that bitch up and save the boxtops.

Destroy: Milk on cereal. Never liked it as a kid. Don't like it now. Get weird looks from people as a result.

D: 'harmony: the cereal for women' or whatevah

PS - There was a time, in my early 20s, where my cereal of choice was Fiber One. Why the hell did I put my colon through that?

PPS - Cheerios once made my mom hurl.

David what about your beauty rest?

I'd like to give a shout out to Lactaid, for making my increasingly rare run-ins with breakfast lactose-free. My stomach and my roomate thanks you ever so much. (Speaking of punchy...)

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Stuff my mom bought (pre/post-divorce): Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Kix, Raisin Bran. Cheerios used to have this amazing capacity for repeating on the young consumer at 10.30, when traces of that distinctive oaty taste would present themselves in a Belch of Hunger that was really a gift that kept on giving. In a way. Miraculously, when I went to college, I found Coco Pops and Captain Crunch had wormed their way into the pantry because my sister started bringing them in.

Stuff my dad bought (post-divorce, when cornered by his own teenagers in supermarket): Sugar Pops, Honeycomb. But why fuck with cereal when you can take the kids to Denny's?

Hot cereal: Coco Wheats and Quaker oatmeal, adulterated with as much milk and sugar as possible. My mum thought Coco Wheats were declassé in the same way she found Barbie doll housing a bit tacky, because our over-tanned, Vegas-junketing neighbours ("look, honey, isn't that the biggest piece of turquoise you've ever seen?") had these things in the home (don't get her started on Spaghetti-o's) and because my best friend had them, pester power happened.

Oatmeal was never bought or served without someone telling the story of the three-day Porridge Standoff where my aunt, an oatmeal-hata, refused to eat same for breakfast, so my grandfather kept bringing it out for her to finish at every family meal for three days. Both parties were as stubborn as the other, but my aunt was the eventual victor in the battle of wills and *never* ate another bowl of porridge for the rest of her life. My grandfather never served it again: congealed oatmeal looks gross dripping off a combover after being hurled at your head by a daughter with good aim.

Matos/Minnesotans, who here got to go on the General Mills tour? I have possibly gotten my jones for goodie bags from going on things like this; GM gave out fun-sized cereal packets, cake mix and other non-edible corporate ephemera in exchange for telling us that Betty Crocker wasn't a real person.

D: Anything that gets soggy within the first 10 seconds (except cornflakes)

dump a box of cornflakes into a plugged-up sink, pour some milk on 'em and let it sit. you'll need a blowtorch to remove that shit after it dries!

ssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell everyone, jeeez!

Official cereal of wigged out trip-kids coming down from acid during the late 80s and early 90s. Not that - ha-hem - I know anything about that. I mean, come ON!!! They were little multicoloured SMILEY FACES!!!

s: Chex, Life, Honey Bunches of Oats (w/Almonds), Bran Flakes, Grape Nuts.
d: Lucky Charms, Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, most kiddy cereals.

Baron Von Redberry
Sir Grapefellow

I see what she was doing there though.

I work for her myself you see.

Word to the wise: this Bulgarian cereal (which I somehow found at my neighborhood grocery) is the worst shit ever:

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Like sawdust and artificial sweetener.

FROM MY UNFINISHED
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
ON BREAKFAST CEREALS.
BY DAVE FRYE

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Although there are tantalizing references to granola in the works of the pre-Socratics, it is by no means certain that the famously lactose-intolerant Pythagoreans had in mind granola in the form of cereal rather than bars. Plato certainly assumed the latter, as should be obvious from his scathing characterization of the Pythagoreans as "charlatans who leave behind them a trail of wrappers." Therefore, it remains fairly safe to say that the modern science of cereal studies began no earlier than with the 1764 publication of Linnaeus's De Cerialibus.

In Linnaeus's rudimentary typology, all cereals were divided into two broad categories: those that float and spill all over the place when you pour the milk in and those that sink and harden into something like cement if you forget to rinse the bowl. Linnaeus's work was greeted with broad enthusiasm in the 18th century, particularly in England, where Dr. Johnson adjudged his work "crunchy sweet," and Gibbon was inspired to begin work on his magisterial Sinking and Floating of the Roman Empire.

Across the channel, Linnaeus's theories were largely ignored. In France, where the intelligentsia clung stubbornly to the traditional "continental" breakfast, De Cerialibus inspired a profound ennui, best exemplified in the famous anecdote involving Voltaire. The celebrated philosophe is said to have expressed his disdain for Linnaeus's taxonomy by tossing a croissant into a bowl of milk with the words "Observe: It floats not. Neither does it harden." He is alleged to have delivered this criticism in fluent French. Voltaire later suffered from terrible constipation, owing to the lack of fiber in his diet, but he refused all doctors' orders that he switch to a breakfast of All-Bran.

The ever-practical Franklin seized on the purported health benefits of cereals that harden. His oft-quoted maxim "To stay strong and in the pink, break your fast on foods that sink" is but one of hundreds of pithy aphorisms he created during the American Revolution while lobbying the French government on behalf of Kellogg's.

The first cracks in Linnaeus's theory began to appear in the early 20th century with Heisenberg's assertion of the so-called Rice Krispies paradox. The apparent paradox was based on a rather intractable experimental anomaly; namely, that Rice Krispies, a notorious floater, also dries hard to the bottom of a bowl. In fact, the crisped-rice cereal exhibits an almost equal degree of buoyancy and hardness. The publication of Heisenberg's findings made a shambles of the once-tidy field of cereal studies.

Since Heisenberg, much noise has been made by anti-rationalists who seek to divorce cereal studies from the hard sciences. Shockley's suggestion that we categorize cereals into "the browns" and "the coloreds" was widely repudiated as racist and need hardly be considered. Meanwhile, the celebrated tendency of Cap'n Crunch to dissolve into a sort of golden milk, not unlike the kind that is popular in the Far East, has inspired many truth-seekers to turn their focus from the Western notion of a crisp, dry product, fresh out of the box, to an Eastern-inspired interest in the mushy, dissolved after-cereal.

Thus, there is little consensus on the subject of cereal, even as the Granola Revisionists—rightfully regarded as crackpots by the scientific community—have gained mindshare among the unlettered. In late 2008, over 300 scientists, including 42 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter denouncing organic cereals for "tasting like cardboard." Yet the letter had little effect on the infamously anti-science (and reputedly pro-egg) Bush administration. Consequently, cereals remain as baffling as they must have been tens of thousands of years ago, when Homo sapiens first formed crude bowls to hold their Fruity Pebbles.

Ate a large bowl of these this morning:
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Can't say Oatibix are all that different to Weetabix.

But lately, one the whole, when not eating Marks and Spencer's Apple and Cinnamon Crunch (with yoghurt-coated cornflakes!), I've been rinsing the Familia Swiss C.M.

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Just polished off a bowl of Life -- regular flavor, not cinnamon. Then I tweeted about it, as if to demonstrate that my own Life is pathetic.

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^ so good, but so dreadfully expensive

s: vanilla yogurt oatmeal crisp

search:

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crunchy in milk & not too sweet

Not rly a cereal person but having mad cravings for Apple-Cinnamon Cheerios last week. Huh??

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Mixing this stuff up with vanilla soy milk renders delicious results.

bob's red mill 10 grain

Always liked Product 19. It's not as easy to find anymore, so whenever I eat cereal now it's Honey Bunches of Oats.

The Nature's Path Mesa Sunrise amaranth flakes are like my favorite cereal ever. I got it for $1 a box once!

???

If that were Special K, then we'd be talking.

http://www.cerealmarshmallows.com/

As you well know box of cereal and the hot Chocolate just never Does have enough Marshmallows and this was a always common complaint.....

UNTIL NOW!!!..;-p

Hello and welcome to Cerealmarshmallows.com This site is Primarily focused on selling Cereal Marshmallows You know the Crispi Crunchy ones that come in you morning breakfast Cereal or Hot Coco

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I swear, I swear, when I was a kid, there was a bag in the cereal aisle of marshmallows only by the cheapo generic bagged cereals. IIRC they were called "Cereal Toppers" or something like that, conveying they weren't meant for just eating straight. I wanted to buy some for my sister for her birthday, but that was several months later, and the store no onger sold them. I was pretty obsessed with checking for them at every new grocery store and I never found them. This was probably 17-20 years ago.

~~fascinating tales~~

Do they still sell the 8-packs of mini-cereal boxes which have perforated sides so you can pour milk in and eat the cereal right out of the box?

Just made my way through a box of Lucky Charms the past two days, life is pretty sweet.

honey bunches of oats dude wtf

Nostalgic for Cocoa Pops, but haven't eaten them in 20 years. BEST.

Excellent povvo version: Rice Bubbles and chocolate Quik.

product 19, the best cereal ever, was unceremoniously discontinued last year, and i'm seriously considering spending $25+ on one of the last boxes via ebay

Our 45th President is driving people towards increased consumption of sugary cereal pic.twitter.com/hFKu4jGC0i

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) June 12, 2017

Something about the times we're living in has made me want to try some new cereals I haven't had before. So I've been browsing the aisles lately, scoping out the cereal scene. (The thing I notice most is that every popular cereal now has a number of spin-off flavor varieties. Seems kinda lame tbh). Anyway I've taken a chance on these:

All-Bran Buds (Kellogg's): This is an adult cereal. More to the point it's adult in the contemporary sense, i.e. for ages 50 and older. It contains an incredible amount of fiber, and actually a lightly sweet taste that is very pleasing. Just a small quantity of it really fills me up. Probably a good choice if your goal is to have a decent adult poo.

Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries (Quaker Oats): I like this a lot. I've always respected the Cap'n Crunch line of cereals, and while this one offers absolutely nothing of nutritional value, I know there are times when all you want is a blast of refined carbs. So this is that.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (General Mills): Purportedly one of the top selling cereals in America, this '80s era product is something I've somehow managed to avoid for decades. Eh.... it's fine, but I can't imagine looking forward to eating a bowl of this. Like why not make actual cinnamon toast?

Other cereal-related thoughts:

*Was disappointed to hear that Product 19 was discontinued about five years ago. That was quite flavorful, a serious flake.
*It seems that Quisp has become a legendary cereal that many people pine for. It's one of those strange products that appears on the shelves only periodically; no one knows when or where it will show up. Anyone here tried it?

Re: Cap'n Crunch

"I know there are times when all you want is a blast of refined carbs..." and the risk of carving a gash into your upper pallette with every chomp.

Knowning that most cereals are far from nutritious, I try to stick with the marginally-better high fiber & protein cereals. But every time I try one of those off-brand "natural" cereals, they are inevitably awful.

Except Kashi--I've liked pretty much every one I've tried.

My favorite cereal used to be Cracklin' Oat Bran, but then they went and changed the recipe. Now it doesn't absord as much milk as it used to, so it's like chewing through wood chips. They tried to improve perfection and screwed themselves.

Can't go wrong with Honey Bunches of Oats.

Honey Bunches of Oats (Post): Let's ignore the ridiculous, borderline offensive name. I have to say, this is a good flake, and augmented with almonds it's almost irresistible. It's got a considerable amount of sugar - though less than Honey Nut Cheerios, which would be a fair product to compare it to. I could see keeping this in my cupboard.

Lidl fruit muesli with cinnamon and chia seeds added and mixed in with lidl bran flakes.
Left to soak in milk for a while.

Frosted Cheerios is very good, recalls Lucky Charms in its flavor profile.

Frosted Krispies is not good, it just tastes like regular Rice Krispies with a ton of sugar dumped on it.

why is crackling oat bran always so expensive

I make a custom blend of Bob's Red Mill Muesli, Grape-Nuts, and shredded coconut... no added sugar, unless I add some dried cranberries which are generally processed in sugar

why is crackling oat bran always so expensive

Why are ALL cereals so expensive? They're ostensibly one of the most basic, least-processed foods (Fruit-Loops etc. excepted) but they know they can rip us off

I would never eat it these days, but my grandmother used to give me frosted flakes with half and half.

These days I eat a mix of Bob's Red Mill Oatmeal and Meusli with raisins and a little honey or maple syrup.

I think I’m gonna wait till I’m 85 years old to eat something like that, but it does sound quite nourishing.

I gave up Cracklin' a few years ago when they changed the recipe, making it impervious to even a mild softening of the structure when immersed in milk (ie, no longer gets soggy). Chewing through a whole bowl become a chore!

Rice Crispies is all time. If I want sugar on my Crispies I usually buy Coco pops.

I am a fan of Alpha Bites. They have a Choco version.

Why are ALL cereals so expensive? They're ostensibly one of the most basic, least-processed foods (Fruit-Loops etc. excepted) but they know they can rip us off

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otm, makes me so angry

Cornflakes >>>>

My dad used to eat Rice Krispies with sugar on which I thought was absolutely disgusting, because to me you only need cold whole milk, but I’ve since come to accept I’m in the minority on this one.

Ultimately I think I like Corn Flakes most cos they contain less sugar in the actual cereal so you can choose what to add. I think Special K has been shit tasting because of added sugar for a while now.

I like to mix a load of cereals up together in a tub for a bit of variety. Got muesli, Shreddies, Shredded Wheat Bitesize, Weetabix and Oatibix flakes in there at the moment. I try to avoid added sugar, find it sweet enough with the milk, but that's quite hard to do. the muesli and Shredded Wheat don't have any

Don't think I will ever understand Muesli.

Otm. Although not as baffling as this 'overnight oatmeal' everyone keeps making and pretending to enjoy.

crazytalk. both overnight oats and muesli are awesome (just picked up some Bob's Red Mill of the latter recently and add whatever fruit and pecans or almonds. the oats are SO delish)

what's not to get about muesli?

yeah but no processed corn in all its forms can't get enough

can't deal with Honey Bunches of Oats because only half of it floats in milk, and then you have spoonfuls of almond-granola mush at the bottom of the bowl. Yuck

Cinnamon Toast Crunch just gets soggy instantly, which is my biggest complaint with sugary breakfast cereals in general (looking at you, Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Flakes). Give me Cap'n Crunch's "risk of carving a gash into your upper pallette with every chomp" any day. My go-to has become og Frosted Mini Wheats, but I will also do Crispix or Rice Chex in a pinch.

Why are ALL cereals so expensive?

Most cereals are pretty highly processed, even the ostensibly less processed stuff. Also, cereal consumption is waaaaay down, so factor that in, too; it's not high prices keeping people away, it's changing breakfast/eating habits.

Funnily enough breakfast is the one time I never eat cereal. Normally it's an after dinner thing, functioning either as a dessert or a fiber supplement.

my best friend growing up would always come over and have grape nuts, which i still like (But Ezekiel 4:9 cereal is like turbo charged grape nuts - way better) with orange juice. That is one i never understood